While news has slightly slowed down, there were still some major announcements. PIL-VAMP have launched the teaser site of their second project R18+Kusunoki Yashiki no Monogatari ~Himitsu no Ochoumen~. Koei Tecmo have opened up the website of the Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6 sequel, Gentou Rondo. A’sRing’s third R18+ game Furue, Yurayura to’s website has also been launched as well. Release dates have been announced for Ken ga Kimi: Momoya Tsuzuri, Gentou Rondo and Black Wolves Saga -Weiβ und Schwarz-. Finally, Precatio has released the first of their two Kokorogawari demos.

There’s been a lot of promotional activities this week, with Kokorogawari, Oumagatoki ~Kakuriyo no Enishi~, 7’scarlet and Koei Tecmo launching sales and campaigns to drum up interest for their games. Caramel Mokaccino has less than 24 hours until their Kickstarter campaign concludes, with 6/8 stretch goals being fully funded. Finally, Kalmia8 have officially confirmed that a third title is in the works, with its teaser site set to launch next week.

December 2015, the dumping ground for PSV ports. The drought of decent (at least, in my opinion) games continues even into the Christmas season. Well, Christmas isn’t nearly as significant to the Japanese like it is to the Western world, so… but the bright side is that I’ll be able to save money. Maybe some of the numerous ports may interest you, which in my case is Getsuei no Kusari’s one.

From here on out, I’ll do my best to cover the doujin scene as well. Based on my poll results, it looks like there is notable interest in me doing so:

March will be a be a massive month, with a jaw-dropping 8 new releases to choose from with quite a bit of console variety. In spite of being a big month, many of the games are fairly uninspired. Not a great month to look for originality, but at least with the done-before settings here, nothing astoundingly stupid/crap has been tacked onto it so as to make it more interesting than it actually is. I’d say most of the games are safe choices unless you really loathe specific themes of the releases. It’s been a long time since there was a month with very minimal rubbish, so maybe this is the otome gods’ birthday gift to me!